 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen, I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Happy Friday friends, it's Friday, it's way in day. I am actually really excited for this week's video. Not only am I going to be sharing with you how my week was, I got a brand new scale that I'm really excited to share with you and I have a new product that I received about a week, two weeks ago. I've been testing it out in preparation for my trip to San Diego, as well as whenever I go into my real estate office and I cannot wait to share it with you guys because it is a million out of 10. It's such a fantastic product so I thought that I would share that with you as well in today's video and of course my weigh-in, we'll talk about the workshop, lots of fun going on in today's video. So if you're excited, give it a big thumbs up and if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed I'd love to have you here. I do a weigh-in every Friday so you definitely don't wanna miss out. I also upload five videos a week. So check out the description box down below for everything I share with you today as well as nutrition coaching. I offer one-on-one coaching as well as macros and calories. Highly recommend having your macros and calories figured for you. I just launched two recipe e-books, breakfast and lunch, 15 recipes, all plan points included and calories. So get your hands on those while they're both still available. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and lastly, join us over on Facebook. We'd love to have you. So let's jump in to this week's weigh-in. I'm so excited to share with you guys my new favorite products, my new scale, so many good things. Let's jump in. Boy, oh boy, was it another week. Our flooring just got finished. So instead of taking one to two weeks it took over three weeks but it is finally done. We no longer have construction workers in our house which makes me so happy. Life has gone from extremely stressful to a little bit more even keel, which is a perfect timing for my upcoming trip to San Diego. So I've been prepping for that. My best friend and I have been chatting about the hotel that we're going to stay in, what we're planning on doing. Unfortunately, I am in my time of the month which makes me feel really tired and bloated and fatigued. So that's been a little bit of Debbie Downer this week but I'm feeling much less stressed which again is perfect timing as I prep for my upcoming trip. I was able to go to Jazzercise three days this last week. I went three days in a row. I'm planning on three days this week as well. I went yesterday, I'm going today and then I'm actually going to see my favorite instructor who's become my really good friend for coffee tomorrow before going to the noon Jazzercise class. So I'm just glad that my life is settling back into somewhat of a normal routine. Before I share with you guys this week's WW Workshop topic I have to share with you this product that I have been obsessed with. This is the Greco Portable Blender. I have the orange one. The Portable Blender actually comes in three colors, orange, blue and white. I love the orange one. It gives me summer vibes but it also gives me fall vibes. It's a 12 ounce Portable Blender. It is USB rechargeable which is amazing. It's a BPA free. It has a ready to drink design. The blades are securely concealed so you don't have to worry about blades damaging your fingertips. It has a skin friendly silicone handle and I love the fun stylish retro colors. The Greco Portable Blender is the new generation personal size blender. It's so absolutely amazing. I, like I said, have been really obsessed with this. It is so compact. It's a pretty lightweight. And the reason that I picked this up is because I knew that I was heading on my trip to San Diego and I wanted to take something with me to prepare healthy protein shakes smoothies on the go. Whether I'm in the airport or we're out sightseeing that way we're not picking up fast food. I'm not empowering a situation where I don't have a healthy option on hand. And because this is portable and I can charge this in my car, in my computer, in the hotel room, in the office. If you are someone that works outside the home or that does a lot of traveling, this is a complete game changer to prepare those healthy meals on hand. My plan is to take protein powder with me. And then all I have to do is add my favorite fruits, milks, protein powder and blend that up. And I have a protein shake or a smoothie on hand at all times. Now, if you work in an office, you can leave your frozen fruit, your protein powder, your milk of choice there and simply just toss it in here and blend it up on the go. If you have a way to keep the fruit and the milk cold, you can simply take that with you, pop everything in the portable blender and again, make a healthy smoothie or protein shake wherever you are. So I have absolutely been loving this. It's definitely going with me to San Diego. I've been taking it to my real estate office so that I can have a protein shake as a snack. It's just been a big game changer. And what I like most about it is it actually works. There are some portable blenders out there that are terrible that their blades, their power isn't strong enough to blend up things like ice or frozen fruit. This one works like a dream every single time. It's easy, easy to clean. It comes apart very easily. So you can clean it out. I love it. I love, love, love it. I will link it down below with a discount for you guys. You can pick your favorite fun or retro color. You will absolutely love this. Again, if you're someone that works outside the home or you're on the go all the time and this little baby is definitely coming with me to San Diego. So let's jump into this week's WW workshop topic and this is about taking charge of your schedule. This is such a perfect topic to go with my new little blender because that little blender definitely helps me take charge of my schedule, especially when I'm on the go. If you're struggling to fit healthy habits into your schedule, it's best to map out your schedule so that you can reach your health goals, whatever those may be, and just make your journey just a little bit easier. If you feel like your days are just jam-packed and there's literally no time for anything else to be added to your day, outline tomorrow's schedule and you may very likely see some potential gaps that you can fit in some of those healthy habits. Write down your entire schedule, the time that you're going to wake up when you're going to eat breakfast, when you have meetings or engagements that day, and you'll likely see that there are gaps whether big or small. Maybe there's five minute gaps, 20 minutes between meals, or maybe you have an hour before you go to bed at night where you can fit in some healthy activities. Choose an activity that supports your journey and that also fits into those gaps that you found when creating your schedule. Maybe you have a five minute gap. What can you do during that five minutes? Maybe you can take that time to track your breakfast or track your last meal. You could meditate, you could write down three good things that happened that day. Maybe you actually have 20 minutes free in your schedule. How about cleaning out your fridge, getting rid of maybe some of those unhealthy foods or expired foods, or just cleaning and organizing your fridge so you feel really good when you open the door? How about finding a new recipe that you'd like to try in creating your shopping list? Or you can even take one of the 20 minute workouts in the WW app. And maybe, just maybe, you have 60 minutes or an hour free in your schedule. You could meal prep for the upcoming week. I don't see a better use of an hour time. You could take a yoga class or a workout class. You could even sit down and read a good book. I know that we feel like we're so busy and there's literally not an extra minute in our day. But managing our time just a little bit better, writing down our schedule and seeing where we can fit in, activities that help us in our health journey is absolutely important and essential for not only your health journey, but for your overall mental health. Studies show that if you become good at managing your time, you're more likely to see success in your weight loss journey. That's why mapping out your schedule again and looking for gaps when you can fit in healthy activities is essential. I love making lists. I've always been a list maker. I have a planner. I actually have several planners and several tools to make lists and track my day. And I often see that there are gaps in between certain things during the day that I can fit in healthy activities. I schedule my hour workout at least three days a week so that nothing takes that time away from me and I'm actually able to get in my workout every single week, journey a priority. And I promise you, even if you feel like there isn't a single extra minute in a day, you'll definitely find room where you can add in some healthy activities. Before I share with you my weight, I want to share with you guys my new scale. So the scale that I've been using for, gosh, two years is big, it's clunky, it's heavy, it takes up a lot of space, it no longer fits in my remodeled bathroom between my cabinet and my toilet, which is where I always kept my scale, that I was on the hunt for a more compact scale and a more accurate scale. My scale asked my husband, he will attest to this, you can step on and off of it 10 times and get a different number. I've changed the battery, I've tried all the tips and tricks, I just think that the scale is old and it's becoming a little bit more defective and not as accurate as it once was. So I invested in the fit track scale and I'm obsessed with this scale. It's so small and compact, but it is so incredibly effective. It comes in both black and white and it is a smart scale. So it actually links to an app in your phone where you can track your progress. It's called the Fit Track Dera is a very different scale than the scale that I had previously and honestly like very different from most traditional weight scales on the market. When you stand on the smart scale, a very low safe electrical signal is sent from four metal electrodes through your feet. So it actually comes through these four circle electrodes on the scale. It passes quickly through water that is present in hydrated muscle tissue but meets resistant when it hits fat tissue. The resistance is measured by the smart scale and input into scientifically validated fit track equations to calculate your body composition measurements. So unlike a lot of other scales on the market, the information pulled from this scale is extremely accurate. You can accurately measure your results and you can count on those results. You can reach your fitness goals eight times faster, understand different body metrics that can be improved on, see progress being made beyond simply weight being lost and I am loving this feature. You can actually see when your body fat percentage goes down. It measures 17 different vital body health metrics plus or minus 3% is accurate as a medical x-ray body fat percentage scan. So like I said, these silver electrodes are extremely accurate, almost as accurate as if you went and had a body scan at your physician's office and it truthfully is the most accurate body composition scale in its class. It measures your fat mass, your muscle mass, your bone mass, your weight and it even measures your hydration. So it's going to tell you how hydrated your body is and all of that information when you step on the scale is transferred into the app. So you have a track record, which I really, really like. If you're someone who doesn't go to WW workshops and maybe you just jot your weight down on a piece of paper every week, using the app is really effective because not only can you see your weight loss, weight gain, you can also see as you gain or lose those specific measurements like fat mass and water mass and just how hydrated your body truly is. It offers personalized insights, easy to read charts, daily, weekly and monthly tracking. It helps you stay motivated and monitors your progress. I'm telling you, this little nugget right here is the best fitness scale I have ever, ever had. And I've had a lot of scales in my life. I love again how small and compact it is. You can take it with you. You can store this in pretty much any size cabinet and this little guy fits between my toilet and my cabinet in my bathroom. I'll definitely link it down below for you guys with a discount and I have never been happier with a scale than I am with this one. It's affordable, it's accurate, it's accurate. That is the big takeaway is it's so entirely accurate and I love that everything is at my fingertips in my app. So I was able to step on my brand new scale this week to get this week's weigh-in and I'm happy to report that I am down again for the third week in a row in September, which was my goal, I am down 0.6 pounds. So another half of a pound loss, which means that so far in the month of September, I have lost one and a half pounds. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. I'm going to keep exercising, utilizing my new scale and I'm hoping to lose weight the following Friday as well before I head out to San Diego and then that way I can feel really good that I lost weight the majority of the month of September before embarking on a vacation. I'm really excited to take my personal blender with me because that way it'll help me keep on track and I'm so excited to show it to my best friend. I think that she'll really like it as well since she does travel so much for work that it would be perfect for her to take with her. She's always wondering how she can eat healthy on the road and that portable blender, complete game changer. Overall, I have lost over 68 pounds. I'm so excited for that. I've lost pretty steadily the majority of the year so far. I had a great weight loss last year and I'm just moving in the right direction and all of these tools have been really helpful in reaching all of my goals. So now I want to hear from you guys. How was your week? Did you gain? Did you lose? What do you think of this blender, this new scale? I'm always so excited to share new, innovative, exciting products with you guys and don't forget I will link both of these down below for you but let me know how your week was. Let me know what you think of this week's topic about carving out time because there's always time in our schedule for some type of healthy activity and just fill me in. Let me know how your week was. I love hearing from you guys down in the comments. Don't forget to give this video a big huge thumbs up if you enjoyed it and if you're new and you haven't yet subscribed, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and don't forget to click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. I do, I weigh in every single Friday so you definitely don't want to miss out. Check out the description box down below for the blender, the scale, all my favorite things, the recipe e-books, nutrition coaching and don't forget to join us on Facebook, another community that would be honored to have you. Happy Friday, friends. I love you guys so, so much and I'll see you in tomorrow's grocery haul.